| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M75686/01 |
| Title: |
OASIS ACCESS CONTROL: IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION |
| Principal Investigator: |
Bacon, Professor JM |
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Computer Science and Technology |
| Organisation: |
University of Cambridge |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 July 1999 |
Ends: |
30 June 2002 |
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73,191
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| Information & Knowledge Mgmt |
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Oasis is a role based access control architecture, which fits well the working practices of many public bureaucracies, such as the NHS, and scales well when large numbers of individuals inhabit well defined roles. It is designed for open, cross-domain operation such as is required for mobile patients and in emergencies. It supports formal expression of access control policy, which is more general than access control lists. Runtime access is controlled via encryption-protected capabilities (certificates) which are issued to principals on proof of their credentials and which may be revoked at the granularity of a single certificate.This combination of features makes Oasis a contender for deployment in many application domains. We need to support users who are unfamiliar with computing detail and reluctant to use time-consuming procedures.Oasis systems will be designed, engineered and evaluated for a number of application domains. Examples are monitoring and control of distributed systems (associated with a Visiting Fellowship), a multi-campus digital library service (via IBM Almaden), the UK NHS, and interworking public services in a networked city. We will gain experience from these real problem domains to prove the ideas in practice.
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http://www.cam.ac.uk |